Alexandra Odum, William Gattis, and Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On sources (clip)
Interviewed on March 26, 2025
Alexandra Odum: The last question I have, when a lot of the original pages when they are written by students, they are looking at things like things like from the Rock Wall, They are looking at different digital newspapers, To some extent they are looking at historical resources, so I guess what are some of the sources that you think are most accurate in representing the history of different sites in the town of Chapel Hill.
Patricia "Pat" Jackson: Well, I would say in looking at the material that we are looking at tonight, it came from students that did research to find out things, but what they found out, they’ve glossed it as opposed to, I guess, what we know it actually was. You know, so, I don’t know…if this is a beautiful spin on it and it wasn’t so beautiful for us, I guess. So, that’s what I mean when I say they’ve got the information, read the information, they got it from somewhere, you know, just like you are saying but it’s glossed over to make it beautiful. And…
William Gattis: They are speaking from their perspective, you see, that’s how they write and what it does is it helps us find a starting point in which we can go back and tweak the information because they’ve actually gotten the information but we can tweak it.
